A US lawyer for the ‘real-life Martha’ Fiona Harvey believes Baby Reindeer writer Richard Gadd will likely be in the witness box during the million-dollar lawsuit. Speaking to Piers Morgan Uncensored, Harvey’s US legal representative Richard Roth says she had a “very, very strong case” and revealed he expects Harvey, Gadd and Netflix executives will testify in court in California.
"I think the second reason is that it is really just reprehensible when someone says something's ‘a true story’… And if Netflix is going to say this is a true story, then it better well be true. And to do that is irresponsible of them. His character Donny Dunn is tormented by the woman called Martha in the series. Internet sleuths easily discovered the character was based on Fiona Harvey.
"It's even worse if Richard Gadd says, ‘Well, I don't really want this to be a true story’. And Netflix says, ‘No, no, no, no, we want it to be true’... And they say, ‘We don't want to listen to you. We're making it a true story’. I mean, we're going beyond, this is far worse than negligence. This is intentional misconduct, if they actually were told, ‘Don't make it a true story’ and they said it were true.
“Netflix has unbelievable culpability for saying at a minimum, that she's a twice-time convicted felon. You saw the scene where she's crying, and she pleads guilty? That's all fabricated.”